Favorite Quotes..... - Page 13

jwharv · #**121** 08-08-2007, 12:34 AM

A young man had been called to the foreign field. He had not been in the habit of preaching, but he knew one thing, how to prevail with God; and going one day to a friend he said: “I don’t see how God can use me on the field. I have no special talent.” His friend said: “My brother, God wants men on the field who can pray. There are too many preachers now and too few pray-ers.” He went. In his own room in the early dawn a voice was heard weeping and pleading for souls. All through the day, the shut door and the hush that prevailed made you feel like walking softly, for a soul was wrestling with God. Yet to this home, hungry souls would flock, drawn by some irresistible power. Ah, the mystery was unlocked. In the secret chamber lost souls were pleaded for and claimed. The Holy Ghost knew just where they were and sent them along.-J. Hudson Taylor

jwharv · #**122** 08-09-2007, 02:15 AM

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience. -- William Penn

In the morning I was more engaged in preparing the head than the heart. This has been frequently my error, and I have always felt the evil of it especially in prayer. Reform it then, O Lord! Enlarge my heart and I shall preach. -- Robert Murray McCheyne

A sermon that has more head infused into it than heart will not borne home with efficacy to the hearers. -- Richard Cecil

jwharv · #**123** 08-10-2007, 12:59 AM

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but we are spiritual beings on a human journey. - Matthew Watts

jwharv · #**124** 08-11-2007, 01:14 AM

There are some ministers who are constantly being knocked out by doing nothing. They preach two messages of a sort on Sunday and say the effort almost wears them out. They go and give little pastoral visitations, which consist in drinking a cup of tea and talking small gossip. But there is no vehement agony for souls, no “Woe! Woe!” on their hearts and lips, no perfect consecration, no zeal in God's service.
Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-92)

jwharv · #**125** 08-11-2007, 12:23 PM

Christ is all. We are complete in Him. He is the answer to every need, the perfect Savior. He needs no decoration to heighten His beauty, no prop to increase His stability, no girding to perfect His strength. Who can gild refined gold, whiten the snow, perfume the rose or heighten the colors of the summer sunset? Who will prop the mountains or help the great deep? It is not Christ and philosophy, nor Christ and money, nor civilization, nor diplomacy, nor science, nor organisation. It is Christ alone. He trod the winepress alone. His own arm brought salvation. He is enough. He is the comfort, the strength, the wisdom, the righteousness, the sanctification of all man.-C. L. Chilton.

jwharv · #**126** 08-13-2007, 12:55 AM

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. - A.W. Tozer (20th century)

tamor · #**127** 08-13-2007, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HADDOCK

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.....
......it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Good quote. I will use this!

jwharv · #**128** 08-16-2007, 12:47 AM

Jesus did not die in order that you might have a free insurance policy against the flames of hell. Some people look upon Christianity as nothing more than cheap fire insurance. But believe me, dear friends, Christianity is you becoming Jesus Christ in the world.
Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960)

jwharv · #**129** 08-17-2007, 02:23 AM

We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us so free that it cannot be the truth. To them it is like believing in fairyland to believe in such freedom as we enjoy. It is like believing in men with wings to entertain the fancy of men with wills. It is like accepting a fable about a squirrel in conversation with a mountain to believe in a man who is free to ask or a God who is free to answer. This is a manly and a rational negation, for which I for one shall always show respect. But I decline to show any respect for those who first of all clip the bird and cage the squirrel, rivet the chains and refuse the freedom, close all the doors of the cosmic prison on us with a clang of eternal iron, tell us that our emancipation is a dream and our dungeon a necessity; and then calmly turn round and tell us they have a freer thought and a more liberal theology.
G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

jwharv · #**130** 08-19-2007, 01:02 AM

As men cherish young plants at first, and fence them about to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown, they remove them, and then leave them to the wind and weather, so God besets His children first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards exposes them to storms and winds, because they are better able to bear it. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is free from troubles. It is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.
Richard Sibbe